Take Them To The Big Screen: 10 Black Women Who Deserve A Biopic
Phyllis Hyman
With beauty and glam of ten Beyoncés and a voice that memorized like no other, a film about the late sultry crooner is long overdue in my most honest of opinions. In spite of being a favorite among the music industry insiders, her career would falter due to a failed marriage followed by a long-term struggle with mental illness and drug dependency until she took her own life just days shy of her 46th birthday.
Who should play her: Jill Scott, Marsha Ambrosius (who is almost a dead ringer) or Audra McDonald (known as Dr. Naomi Bennett in both “Grey’s Anatomy “and “Private Practice”).